Who’s your daddy?
Feb 12th, 2010 by Peter
Chances are now 1 to a handful of billions that I am.
Yesterday, Thursday the 11. february 2010 at 18:16, C gave birth to a healthy boy. She went 14 days past expectancy, and thus the kid is nearing a whopper. 4.2kg, which is about 400g over average. Hard toiling for C who was extremely exhausted. She seemed fine when I was thrown out of the hospital at 11.45 pm, though.
Couldn’t sleep after 5.20, when I recieved a late congratulations sms. So up and about collecting stuff to take to the hospital at 8.00, when its open for dads again.
More later….
That’s great news!
All the best wishes and a 1000 congratulations to the mother and father :-)
Please send our best wishes to the new mother from Tangshan!
Fantastic Peter! Huge congratz to both you and C. Reading ahead a bit it sounds like it was quite the experience. I wish I could say I wasn’t a tad nervous about the whole thing, but will definitely be passing on the doability of birthing a 4.2kg baby to Mags! :-)
Congratulations again!
Thanks Ryan. You shouldn’t worry now. You’ll get enough time to worry later. What you should worry about what happens after you come home. Personally I have developed feminine traits that oddly enough feel passable. So I am now able to spot both dust and dirty dishes. Hopefully this will go away when C gets back on her feet, so I can grow a pair and do manly things again. Jokes aside I kind of like doing choirs after the birth, since this is the way I can help best. I can’t do much breastfeeding to speak of and C really hasn’t got the energy anyway. Also there is an immense load of work that needs doing when your home goes from 2 to 3. No need to go into details. You’ll know soon enough ;-)
I have to say. It was pretty tough to witness my wife being in pain and afterwards experience a new level of anxiousness , when the kid cries and you can’t find out what’s wrong (the right answer so far has been found between: new diaper, hungry, gassy or social needs).
We had to work hard the first 5 days, being in the hospital constantly trying to comfort and feed the newborn. The hospital staff was very thorough though and wouldn’t let us go before everything was in good shape.
Now, 1 week and 2 days later, we have been home 4 days and things start finding their own rhythm. We’re extremely busy still, with me having taken over C’s normal duties. So now I also do laundry, cooking, and cleaning almost all of the time. Then add the tasks like preparing and cleaning bottles and diaper changing when I have a spare minute. C has her hands full dealing with the little terrorist and hardly gets enough sleep and neither does I (you start worrying a bit, so sleep is not always god). C is the one with the biggest burden though, so I may be stressed, but it’s worth it to keep C sane.
You’re in for a rough ride, but also a great one.
Congratulations! Looked through some of the photos…cute kid you got.
Hi Matt, thanks a lot. Yes, he is kinda cute isn’t he :-)